Patents by Inventor Oliver Dimmer

Oliver Dimmer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus and process for identifying object
    Patent number: 8418921
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (10) and a corresponding process for identifying an object (20) with an article dependently upon a piece of barcode information detected from a barcode (30) with which the object (20) is identified. Here a number of article numbers are stored in a memory (60) which are assigned, on the one hand, to a number of articles and on the other hand to a number of different article number types. According to the invention, the piece of barcode information detected is compared with article numbers stored in the memory (60) dependently upon a specified sequence of article number types. In the case of the piece of barcode information detected corresponding with one of the stored article numbers, the object (20) is identified with the article assigned to this article number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Agfa HealthCare NV
    Inventors: Jonas Hinz, Oliver Dimmer
  • Device and Method for Identifying an Object
    Publication number: 20100294841
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (10) and a corresponding process for identifying an object (20) with an article dependently upon a piece of barcode information detected from a barcode (30) with which the object (20) is identified. Here a number of article numbers are stored in a memory (60) which are assigned, on the one hand, to a number of articles and on the other hand to a number of different article number types. According to the invention, the piece of barcode information detected is compared with article numbers stored in the memory (60) dependently upon a specified sequence of article number types. In the case of the piece of barcode information detected corresponding with one of the stored article numbers, the object (20) is identified with the article assigned to this article number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV
    Inventors: Jonas Hinz, Oliver Dimmer